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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: ISLES OF SCILLY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw narcissus in a portico
Last Line: Stampeding by the lone scillonian isles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Sicily; Statues
First Line: I saw narcissus in a portico
Last Line: Stampeding by the lone scillonian isles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Sicily; Statues
I SAW Narcissus in a portico
Leaning his ear toward the yellow bells
Of his own flower, festooned, that from the shells
Voluted on the pavement, caught the low
Long echoes of an Archipelago
Afar, beyond the pillared parallels
Wherein a soft wind wound, and nothing else,
Between his shoulder and the afterglow.
Figure of bronze! Thou listenest alway:
Ever for thee that lazy song beguiles.
But I must wake, and toil again, and pray;
And yet will come but rarely, and at whiles,
The shout and vision of the sea-gods grey,
Stampeding by the lone Scillonian isles.
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